Draft attachment for wagons



UNITED STATES PATENT V OFFICE.

JOBST H. BUENING AND HERMAN KLUG, OF MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN.

DRAFT ATTACHMENT FOR WAGONS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 291,573, dated January 8, 1884.

Application filed March 22, 1883. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern Be it known that we, JoBsT H. BUENING and HERMAN KLUG, both of Milwaukee, in the county of Milwaukee, and in the State of Wisconsin, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Draft Attachments to Wagon-Gear; and we do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof.

Our invention relates to the front runninggear of wagons; and it consists in an attach- I ment whereby the strain of the draft will come directly upon the front axle, as will be more fully set forth hereinafter. r 5 In the drawings, Figure l is a plan view of a portion of the front gear of a wagon with our attachment secured thereto, and Fig. 2 is a central vertical cross-section thereof.

A is the front axle, and B B represent the hounds projecting therefrom and receiving be tween them the tongue 0, the rear end of which is secured by a bolt, 0, between the plates 12 b, connecting the hounds together above and below the tongue.

D is the evener, and this is supported below the hounds by means of a plate or metal strap, E, secured to the hounds, and this plate has a transverse slot, 6, whereby the bolt d, which passes through the evener and connects it to the strap, may have play in the direction of the length of the tongue, and thus prevent the said evener from binding.

F F are the whiffletrees, suspended from the ends of the evener by ordinary rings or loops,

f, in the usual manner.

G G are horizontal sheaves, sustained in blocks 9 g, secured near each end of the evener, as shown, and h is anotherblock, secured to the axle A by bolt h, or otherwise, and which 40 bears another horizontal sheave, H. Two hooks or staples, a a, are secured to the front side of the axle A, and a chain, I, extends ple a, where it is secured, so that a draft at either end, or both ends, of the evener, will transmit its force instantly and equally to the axle and cause the latter to bear the strain, no matter whether one end of the evener is nearer to the axle than the other end or not.

A further advantage of our device is that both horses will be made to bear equally their proportion of the draft, no matter in what position the evener may be.

Having thus described our invention, what we claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. The combination of the axle A, provided with the hooks or staples a a, and central sheave, H, with the evener D, having the sheaves G Gone near each endand the chain I, the ends of which are secured at a a to the ends of the axle, the said chain passing around the sheaves G H G, free from attachment thereto, or to any part of the evener, substantially as set forth.

2. The combination of the axle A with hounds B B, supporting the tongue 0 between them, and the evener D, suspended from the hounds by slotted plate E e and bolt (1, independent of the tongue, sheaves G G and H, and chain 1, all substantially as set forth.

In testimony that We claim the foregoing we have hereunto set our hands on this 16th day of March, 1883, in the presence of two witnesses.

.JOBST H. BUENING. HERMAN KLUG.

Witnesses:

H. G. UNDERWOOD, M. KAUMHEIMER. 

